# Penpot CMS plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Contribution\ **Tags:** plugins\ **Created:** [September 11, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821 "2025-09-11T09:12:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Belar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Belar](https://community.penpot.app/u/Belar)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/1 "2025-09-11T09:12:01Z")
Hello, I have an idea for a content management system plugin and thought I would share it on the forum, to see what you think about it. With the plugin, you can take a batch of data (e.g. a spreadsheet export) and apply it to and reuse it in your design. For example, from a single template “component”, generate and showcase a button with different content options (label length, language), reuse blog post content on different components (index, post, excerpt, short list etc.), or create different versions of a promo graphic. It’s not an attempt to turn Penpot into a website builder, but to make content reusable and quick and easy to manage, solo or within a team. Below is a video of a small PoC, presenting: - 🧱 batch item creation based on a data set and a template element, - ↔️ two-way editing, - 🏷 layer name based content pairing - the project file works without the plugin. I’m yet to test variants, but suspect it will be a great use case. ---
**Author:** ![LauraKalbag](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/laurakalbag/32/5014_2.png) [@LauraKalbag](https://community.penpot.app/u/LauraKalbag)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/2 "2025-09-12T09:43:05Z")
Very cool! I think marketing teams would really appreciate a plugin like this. ---
**Author:** ![a-ng-d](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/a-ng-d/32/11021_2.png) [@a-ng-d](https://community.penpot.app/u/a-ng-d)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/3 "2025-09-15T14:15:31Z")
That’s a cool initiative to create campaign at scale! May Penpot be a tool for creating marketing assets 😆 ---
**Author:** ![hey-carlos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/hey-carlos/32/8274_2.png) [@hey-carlos](https://community.penpot.app/u/hey-carlos)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/4 "2025-09-17T00:04:27Z")
Really cool. Even something as simple as this demo would make the content migration I’m currently working on much much smoother. Looking forward to seeing more! ---
**Author:** ![Belar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Belar](https://community.penpot.app/u/Belar)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/5 "2025-09-19T11:23:45Z")
@LauraKalbag @a-ng-d Thank you. You are right, it could be a great tool for creating sets of marketing materials. @hey-carlos Thank you. Content migration sounds like a great use case. I will make sure to post updates. ---
**Author:** ![Arlo-James](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@Arlo-James](https://community.penpot.app/u/Arlo-James)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/6 "2025-09-25T07:31:07Z")
This sounds like a really useful idea! Making content reusable and easier to manage could save a lot of time, especially for teams working on multiple variations. Excited to see how it develops. ---
**Author:** ![Belar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Belar](https://community.penpot.app/u/Belar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/7 "2025-10-19T11:53:19Z")
I worked on the prototype a bit more and am happy to share new findings and a demo you can run yourselves. ### Features and findings - 📦 The item template works with components. - ❌ Added item deletion. Same as addition, it is reflected in the project. - 🏷 Added dynamic property names. In the prototype, they have to be unique, but I don’t expect this limitation to be present in the plugin proper. The name change is not automatically reflected in the Penpot element, but it could be. ### Demo If you would like to try the plugin out, you can install a development preview from: ```auto https://penpotcmspreview.authormore.com/manifest.json ``` ⚠ It is a development preview and has everything that comes with such a build, like bugs, unhandled edge cases, inconsistent mechanics, and so on. Feedback is very much welcome. Especially, I would appreciate your thoughts on how far automated the synchronisation should be - that’s changes in the sheet reflected in the project. ---
**Author:** ![LauraKalbag](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/laurakalbag/32/5014_2.png) [@LauraKalbag](https://community.penpot.app/u/LauraKalbag)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/8 "2025-10-21T09:29:45Z")
I’m not getting anything happening when I use the “select template shape” button. Am I doing something wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Belar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Belar](https://community.penpot.app/u/Belar)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/penpot-cms-plugin/9821/9 "2025-10-21T12:27:56Z")
Thank you for checking it out and sorry the mechanics are unclear. I will make sure to fix that in the plugin. If you click the “Select template shape" button and then a template’s layer (in the Penpot’s canvas or layer tree), it should produce new elements with content from the table - matching a column and a layer based on their names. Here is a demo file, with a project structure that matches the default table: [penpot-cms-demo.penpot](https://community.penpot.app/uploads/short-url/i0OpWjMfiIuWU9ZeLqn9juF5gBK.penpot) (33.2 KB) In this case, clicking “Select template shape” and then “TitleTemplate” or “TitleTemplateComponent” should generate new items.